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Chapter Twelve-In Sleep

I lay awake at night and pray
Not to see the light of day
I wonder how to behave right
He has left me such a mess
Counting to protest
My mind can't get no rest

Why am I so terrified of waking?
He's gone and I feel I've been forsaken
In sleep is the only place I get to see him, get to love him
Be with him
I love him, I love him, I love him

In Sleep-Lissie

"Ginny?" she tried her best to ignore her name being called and to stay asleep, it's been three weeks since Draco left her and since then she's been a mess sleeping days away. Sleep was her new drug, it was her escape from reality and it was the one place that she could be with Draco again. "Ginny wake up!" a hand shoving against her shoulder caused her to open her eyes.

"What?" she snapped at George. He looked hurt at her hostile tone and she felt a twinge of guilt, after all, George took it upon himself to check in on her once a day when she informed her family that Draco left.

"Have you even been out of bed once since I saw you yesterday?" he asked taking a seat on her bed.

"No, I like it that way," she said as she laid back onto her bed and threw her blanket over her head.

"If you don't want Ron or mom to find out about your fancy for Malfoy then you better stop with this moping," George warned her as he tugged her blanket away.

"I don't care anymore George-about nothing, I just want to sleep," she mumbled as she curled herself into a ball as a way to stay warm.

"I understand how you feel Ginny, when Fred died I tho-"

"This isn't the same thing! Fred DIED he didn't choose to leave us, he didn't lie to us, he didn't betray us, he died George, this isn't the same fucking thing!" She yelled sitting up to glare at him. A twinge of guilt hit her hard when she saw the sadness in his eyes. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that," she apologized as she wiped away a few tears from her eyes.

He shrugged and stood up, "I know he hurt you Gin, but you shouldn't let him destroy your life in the process."

"I loved him George, and he left me without a word and without any warning," Ginny said, staring at the wall to avoid her brother's gaze of disbelief.

"I'm sorry Ginny, I truly am, but sleeping your life away won't solve anything."

"Let me be George, please," she turned to him, her eyes pleading for him to understand. With a sigh he nodded his consent, "Thank you," she said before lying back onto her bed, her back turned to him. He stood beside her for a couple of minutes more before she heard him walk out of her room and out the door, a crack could be heard a few minutes later and once she knew she was once again alone, she allowed tears to fall as sleep consumed her.

This had to be the worst motel he's ever stayed in. The smell of cheap cigars, sex, body odor and cheap whiskey welcomed him when he opened the door to the lobby. The man behind the counter looked as if he hadn't showered in days, his salt and pepper beard looked unkempt, his green eyes were bloodshot, and his red t-shirt held sweat stains around his chest and armpit area. "One room, with one bed," Draco ordered taking out a few wads of muggle money.

For the past three weeks he's been roaming all over England staying in cheap muggle motels so he wouldn't get caught. Every day he wondered about Ginny and hoped to Merlin that she was safe, he knew she was most likely devastated about losing him but her safety was all that mattered to him more than anything. "Fo' 'ow long?" the man asked, his teeth were a mix of yellow and black, and he was missing a few teeth.

"Just two days," that was his rule, never stay anywhere longer than two days. The man accepted the money and handed Draco a key with the numbers 23, bold and black, on the keychain. He took the key and walked out immediately finding his room; he unlocked it and turned on the light to a poor excuse of a room. The walls were painted in a salmon color but they were peeling off to show brick underneath and there was patches of dirt spread out, the carpet was a dirty looking brown, he saw a few cockroaches scuttle away when he stepped into the room, the bed was a king size the pale blue sheets were faded and contained a few stains. The room smelled like old fries, sex, and cigarettes.

With a sigh he sat onto the bed and took out the unopened letter he received by owl this morning at his last motel room. He stared at the letter for a few minutes; he always feared what was written there because he knew from experience that a few words can completely change your life. Taking a deep breath he opened the letter and immediately recognized Blaise's handwriting.

All's good over here. Since I haven't heard anything about you I'm assuming you're not in the wizarding world, good for you man. Now I know that you want to hear about Ginny and I'm happy to say that she's still safe, I can't say how she is though since no one but Weasleys are even allowed near the Burrow but she's still there and the death eaters keep flying past it so the wards are still up and strong. I'll let you know more when I find anything else out, take care Draco.

-Blaise

He breathed a sigh of relief, as long as she was safe then everything-his loneliness, these horrible motels, her now forever hating him-was all worth it.

"Sleep while you can Ginevra, I shall taste you soon and you will forever be mine."

Her eyes snapped open and she sat up with a gasp. As she tried to control her ragged breathing she felt tears spill from her eyes as she stared through the darkness to her open doorway, willing Draco to come and comfort her like he always did. When her breathing calmed she realized that he was truly gone.

"Fucking git," she mumbled as she wiped the tears from her eyes. Sighing she stood up from bed and answered the call of her growling stomach, she couldn't even remember the last time she ate and from the dryness of her mouth she knew it's been more than 12 hours.

Seeing the light in the kitchen on caused her body to stiffen, she instinctively took out her wand from the pocket of her robe and quietly walked into the kitchen. "Charlie?" she lowered her wand upon seeing her familiar older brother.

He turned from the window to look at her with a broad smile, "Is that anyway to greet your older brother?" he held his arms out and with a smile she stepped into his embrace.

"What're you doing here so late?" she asked stepping back from his embrace and sitting down at one of the kitchen chairs.

He sat on a chair across from her, giving her a quizzical look, "Ginny, it's only 8 o' clock at night."

"Really?" she looked to the counter where a clock stood and saw that he was indeed right, "I haven't realized it," she said with a chuckle to make sure he didn't worry about her.

"I think George exaggerated when he said you were feeling kind of blue,"

She let out a sigh of annoyance, "I'm fine, so I got bored and decided to fall asleep, it tends to happen when you're stuck inside while everyone else is out fighting,"

"You know I would love to have you fighting alongside us if it meant you'd be happy, but it's no secret that You-Know-Who is after you, we can't take that chance, especially not after what happened with Percy,"

"Percy, what happened to Percy?" Ginny asked her heart speeding up.

"Mum didn't tell you?" he asked with surprise on his face.

"Tell me what?"

"Ginny, Percy was captured three weeks ago by death eaters, we've been out looking for him since then," If she wasn't already sitting she was sure that she would've fallen, her entire body became numb at his words. Percy wasn't exactly her favorite brother, but he was still her brother and the fact that he was captured weeks ago without her knowledge shook her to her core.

"Why am I just now finding out about this?" she snapped at him.

He held his hands out in mock surrender, "Gin, I could've sworn mum told you,"

She stood from her chair and began pacing around the kitchen, "I'm going to help look for him,"

"No, absolutely not Ginny,"

"I'm the reason why Percy was captured in the first place! He's my brother and they want me, they could be torturing him into insanity just for them to find out where I am, I can't just sit behind and let them hurt my brother, I'm helping Charlie, no matter what," she said giving her brother a stern look.

"And if you end up getting captured in the process of looking for him then you'll make his torture seem meaningless Ginny," he stood up and placed his hands on her shoulders, physically begging her to stay put.

"I have to do something Charlie, you know Percy, it's a miracle he's lasted this long but sooner or later he'll tell them and I won't be safe here anymore, especially if I'm alone like I usually am, please understand this Charlie," she looked up at him, begging with her eyes for him to understand. But from his stern gaze she knew begging was futile, and she angrily stepped away from him and turned her back on him. "Goodbye Charlie," she snapped before she went back to her room, she slammed the door in anger and collapsed on her bed. Through the pounding of her blood in her ears she faintly heard a crack a few minutes later signaling that she was once again alone.

Jumping out of her bed she turned on her lamp and proceeded to pack some clothes, her broomstick, and a few bottles filled with polyjuice potion into a bag. Throwing the bag over her shoulder she turned off her lamp and walked downstairs where she quickly penned a note and laid it on the kitchen counter. Stepping out of the Burrow she took one last look back and with determination pooling into her heart she apparated away.

"That stupid girl!" He yelled to his empty motel room when he read Blaise's letter informing him that Ginny ran away and was nowhere to be found, he proceeded to pacing the room as he worried over Ginny. It was no secret that Tom was looking for Ginny, wanted posters of her face was being posted everywhere, even in the Muggle world.

He reached for his wand and nearly apparated but he then cursed himself for his impulsive thinking, he didn't even know where she was and why she ran in the first place, he knew it wasn't because of him since she would've left sooner than now. With a sigh he sank onto the bed as the realization that he was helpless washed over him. "Ginny please don't get yourself killed," he mumbled before he wrote a rare reply to Blaise.

Upon hearing a crack behind her she whirled around, throwing a hex at the unfortunate soul who managed to walk into her campsite when she was in the middle of casting protection charms. "Ginny what the bloody hell are you doing here?" she lowered her wand when she heard the familiar voice.

"Ron?" he walked from the cover of a tree, reaching a hand out to help lift Harry who was knocked off of his feet from being hit with a stinging charm. With a huge smile Hermione ran from the tree she was hiding behind and engulfed Ginny into a hug.

"Oh Ginny I've missed you so much, but what are you doing here, where's Draco?" Hermione asked loosening her embrace to look at Ginny.

"I'm looking for Percy," she answered avoiding Hermione's gaze and her second question. She walked over to Harry to see how he was doing hoping that Hermione wouldn't interrogate her about the whereabouts of Draco. "Sorry about that Harry, are you all right?"

"Yeah I'm fine, now what's this about Percy?" he asked as Hermione finished putting the protective enchantments around them.

"He was captured by the death eaters a month ago," Ron looked at her with surprise and worry on his face. "I'm guessing mum hasn't told you either," he shook his head in response.

"No owls, it makes it harder for us to be tracked," Harry replied.

"Ginny is Draco coming back? I don't want him to be lost because of these enchantments," Hermione asked, she only had one small spot left to cover and Ginny guessed that she assumed that Draco was out gathering firewood or something.

"He could be in bloody Singapore for all I know, he left in the middle of the night about a month ago, I haven't seen or heard from him since," Ginny replied turning away from them and magically setting up her tent, she could hear Hermione murmur the enchantments.

"Guess you drove him nuts eh Gin?" Ron said with a laugh as he nudged his elbow against Harry's ribs.

"Ron!" Hermione scolded, he blinked in confusion then focused on Ginny's hurt expression.

"Bloody hell you fancy fucking Malfoy?" he yelled as his eyes widened in shock and disbelief, he looked to his friends and was even more shocked that they didn't seem as surprised as him. "You both knew about this?"

"I actually just guessed, I wasn't 100% sure," Harry replied holding his hands up in mock surrender.

"Don't you even start with me Ron Weasley, it wasn't my secret to tell," Hermione said poking a finger into his chest.

"Ron just shut it, he left me, he's as good as dead to me all right?" Ginny said with a sigh before entering the comforts of her tent. It was charmed to be the size of her bedroom at the Burrow, she jumped into her bed and stared up at the ceiling, willing Draco to get out of her mind, she was sick of thinking about him. Taking a deep breath she turned to her side and allowed sleep to consume her.

"So rumor has it that the death eaters are using Azkaban as their prison for people they captured, maybe Percy's being held there," Harry said the next morning when they all sat around the fire eating their breakfast.

"Sounds like the best lead I've heard in over a week, so when do we leave?" Ginny asked taking one last bite of her biscuit.

"Calm down Ginny, we need a plan first," Hermione said, her tone sounding eerily like Molly Weasley's tone.

Pouting she nodded her head in agreement, her body drummed with adrenaline and the last thing she wanted was to just sit by and plan but she knew it was important to plan especially when they would be intruding in enemy territory so to speak. They leaned closer to each other and threw out ideas for a plan.

Don't you dare go looking for her Draco! I know you love her and you want her to be safe, I feel your pain trust me I do, but you'll be no good to her if you get caught. Just lay low and I'll keep you updated on what I know. Please Draco, I'm begging you to not play the hero, it might seem noble but you're no good to her dead. Lay low Draco.

-Blaise

He crumbled up the letter in frustration and set it on fire with a lighter. Living among Muggles for so long was starting to rub off on him, he rarely ever used magic anymore, and his ancestors were probably rolling over in their graves right now. He rubbed his hands through his hair as his arm became wet, he looked to the side to see Pepper, a black lab that he saved from getting hit by a car about a week ago. At first he tried to get the dog to stop following him but he grew to love the loyal dog, he was less lonely with him.

"You hungry Pepper?" he asked scratching behind the dog's ear as Pepper wagged his tail in glee. Welcoming the temporary distraction he sifted through his bag and took out the bowl he bought the day after he accepted the fact that Pepper was now his, he filled the bowl with the few remaining kibbles that was in the bag, he made a mental note to buy some more.

Pepper eagerly ate up the kibbles allowing Draco to think about Ginny. Scratching his growing beard he grabbed a piece of parchment from his bag along with a quill and ink and he penned another response to Blaise. He knew that Blaise needed his promise that he would stay put and as much as he hated to admit it, Blaise was right. If he was captured then he would just prove to be a liability for Ginny and he'd be damned six times over before he allowed Tom Riddle to touch Ginny because of him.

It took about 5 days of planning but they were finally ready for action. Hiding under Harry's invisible cloak-which was very difficult for four teens to completely hide under-they looked over the pile of rocks they were hiding behind to make sure the coast was clear. "Ok everyone take one, but it only lasts for an hour so we need to hurry," Hermione whispered as she handed them a small vial of polyjuice potion each with a piece of hair from a Muggle already inside.

They each drank their own potion, their face contorted in disgust, it only took a few seconds for the potion to work and they proceeded to separate. It would be more difficult to get caught if they were split up and more ground would be covered faster. Ginny transfigured a few bricks to become a door, checking around to make sure she was alone, she entered the door and came upon a dark room, and it looked like it was the hallway for stairs.

Transfiguring the door back to bricks she proceeded up the stairs, her heart pounding in her chest with the growing adrenaline that was flowing through her veins. She opened the first door she saw and making sure the coast was clear before entering the long hallway, after taking a few steps she realized that there were cells on both sides with prisoners in each of them. She held her breath as she looked in each of the cells looking for a familiar tuft of red hair.

"Percy?" she whispered to a sleeping prisoner after what felt like eternity, his back was turned to her but his shaggy mop of hair was red. It seemed like hours before the mop of head turned to her and she breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the familiar face of her brother under his unkempt beard. "Hang on I'm going to get you out of here," she whispered as she took out her wand, whispering a spell to quietly disintegrate the metal bars she rushed over to Percy and thanked Merlin that he was conscious.

He looked up at her in confusion as she wrapped his right arm around her shoulders and with her left arm around his waist she helped him stand up. "Who are you?" he whispered. At first the question worried her, was he so tortured that he couldn't even recognize his own sister? Then she recalled that she drank polyjuice potion and she mentally slapped herself for her momentary memory lapse.

"It's me, Ginny," she hissed as she dragged him out of the cell. For being locked up for a month he sure did feel heavy. They made their way to the stairwell before distant voices caused her to temporarily stop in her tracks. Looking down at her hands she could see that the polyjuice potion was wearing off, "Shit," she cursed as she hurried Percy's weak body down the stairs back to the area she originally transfigured to be a door.

It took longer than expected to find the place and from the long red locks falling into her face she knew that the polyjuice potion completely wore off. She quickly whispered the spell to transfigure the bricks into a door just as a group of running footsteps started running down the stairs. Throwing Percy out into the open she looked to see that the death eaters were only two flights away from her. "Take my wand Percy, hurry and transfigure the door back to bricks then apparate away and call Harry through this," she handed him her wand and the coin that she received in her fourth year when she was a part of Dumbledore's Army.

"Please tell everyone that I love them and I'm sorry and they better find me quick," she turned her back to Percy to face the group of death eaters; she breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the door being transfigured back into bricks.

"Looks like we're getting a promotion boys," one of the hooded death eaters said causing his buddies to chuckle.

"Stupefy!" she felt her body fall to the ground and her head smashed against the brick floor instantly sending stars to pop in her vision. As the death eaters stepped closer to her, her vision turned to black, a sense of dread filled her. She was caught and Tom would never let her out of his sight now.

A/N: Wow I'm shocked that I got this chapter out so quick. The next one will be extra-long though (hopefully) so brace yourselves for a long wait. And I know Pepper was kind of randomly thrown there but my dad's gonna buy a dog soon and in all of my excitement I decided to throw in Pepper, even though our dog's name will be Wolvi-chete lol so I hope you enjoyed this chapter! :D Please review!